Excerpted from Jay Kinney's essay "The Rise and Fall of the Underground Comix Movement in San Francisco and Beyond" in the book "Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78," edited by Chris Carlsson and published by City Lights Foundation.
Topics: Comix, Mission District, politics, art
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Jan 21, 2009
01/09
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Chris Carlsson
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Roberto Lovato, who grew up on Folsom near 25th Street during the 1970s, describes how his father was involved in the "alternative economy" centered on Hunt's Donuts at 20th and Mission, and how it benefitted his extended Salvadoran families in San Francisco and in El Salvador.
Topics: Crime, Salvadoran community, Mission District
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Apr 27, 2006
04/06
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David Cox, Mind Shadow Media
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Dr Yes (played by David Cox) confronts the developers about the plans for San Francisco and the post globalised McWorld. He finds out how today's totally illegal energy wars work hand-in-glove with the now world-wide fully-wired and completely entertainment driven society of blank spectacularised alienation. This trailer is one of a series which will be uploaded to archive.org Dr Yes is made partly from, and will then enter back into the creative commons domain of fully shared ideas and...
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Topic: Dr Yes, Mission District, San Francisco
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An interview with Jack Wickert, former member of the SF Mime Troupe and cofounder of "The Farm."
Topics: Mission District, SF Mime Troupe, The Farm
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Mar 4, 2015
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Shaping San Francisco
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Artists’ Television Access (ATA) was founded in 1984 by artist John Martin and Marshall Weber. Originally a quirky art warehouse space called the Weber/Marshall Gallery located on 8th Street in the SOMA district. Due to a fire in 1986, the gallery moved to 992 Valencia Street in San Francisco in the Mission District and was renamed the Artists’ Television Access. It has shown underground movies, videos, and performance art. Filmmaker Craig Baldwin provides a history and an insight into...
Topics: ATA, SOMA, Mission District, underground, media
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Yogurt tapes
Topics: Matty luv, naked cult, hickey, mission district, yogurt
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Oct 23, 2005
10/05
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Jose Hernandez
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Introducing burntwire.tv a free collaborative video podcast from San Francisco. We are a diverse alliance of filmmakers, artists, musicians and poets. This is our premiere episode, coming to you from the stoop of our Folsom street headquarters in the Mission. Subscribe to our feed and receive each episode automatically in your iTunes. We bring you a buffet of short films, citizen journalism, jam sessions and urban mischief. Reality TV step aside, because this is how we roll! http://burntwire.tv
Topics: San Francisco, Mission District, burnt, wire, burntwire, burntwire.tv, party
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Sep 5, 2014
09/14
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Judy Drummond
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A candid discussion with artist, educator, and activist Martha Estrella. An in-depth history of the Mission District of San Francisco and the changes the new tech industry is bringing.
Topics: KPOO, Judy Drummond, Connecting the Dots, Martha Estrella, Mission District San Francisco
40+ minutes of live sound recorded in the Gartland Pit, 16th and Valencia, San Francisco's Mission District, Sept. 1987. Tom Jennings and Shred of Dignity are featured, and many anonymous commenters over the punk show in the background.
Topics: Gartland pit, landlord arson, Mission District, 16th and Valencia, police, punks, music, 1987
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Apr 20, 2014
04/14
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Adriana Camarena
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Donna, her husband Robert “Jawara” Johnson, and the family dogs Xochitl (age 4) and DJ (age 2 and ½) were served with Ellis Act eviction papers in 2012, and forced out of their 73-B Pearl Street in San Francisco by serial evictors Kwok Chung Wong and Har Kwan Luk . Since 2003, this company has Ellis Acted 30 units in San Francisco, including the 6 units at Donna’s former home building on Pearl Street.
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Donna Johnson, CalHumanities,...
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Apr 16, 2014
04/14
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Adriana Camarena
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Sarah Brandt is a San Francisco public school teacher and lifelong City dweller, who is currently being Ellis Act evicted from her Mission District apartment, alongside her 98 year old neighbor, Mary Elizabeth (M.E. or Emmy) Phillips. Emmy has lived in her home for over 40 years. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Sarah Brandt, Mary Phillips,...
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Apr 18, 2014
04/14
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Adriana Camarena
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Río Yañez, alongside his mother and father – Yolanda Lopez and Rene Yañez – are being evicted from their family home at San Jose Ave, near 26th Street in the Mission by Realty West. His family has lived in the same apartment on San Jose Ave. since 1978. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Rio Yañez, CalHumanities,...
Sirron Norris has been splashing his satirical cartoon characters around the Mission and San Francisco for years. From biting social commentary to whimsical commercial art, his work spans a range that challenges the boundaries of art and politics.
Topics: art, murals, cartoons, cartoon literalism, tagging, graffiti, Mission District, commercial art,...
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Apr 20, 2014
04/14
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Adriana Camarena
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Jason and Sandy were evicted from 6511 Raymond St. Oakland by Dan Daigle. They had been living there 3 years and 5 months, since they arrived to the Bay Area. An Oakland story was included because few people understand that the epidemic of evictions is wrecking havoc in Bay Area wide communities. Residents of San Francisco have approved regulations to protect tenants, and despite this democratic exercise, real estate speculators find loopholes to damage communities. Residents pushed out of San...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Sandy Juarez, Jason Wallach,...
Topics: San Francisco, Mission District, OWS, Occupy San Francisco, demonstrations, protests, 99%, SFPD
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sf2006/6443288263/
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May 14, 2015
05/15
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@rejon
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Documentation from the Mission 17 Show, Cantocore Free On Board.
Topics: cantocore, free on board, FOB, san francisco, guangzhou, documentation, art, contemporary art, art,...
The Mission District's incomparable Guillermo Gomez-Peña performs his latest screed, “Notes from Technotopia: On the Cruelty of Indifference” along with a brief retrospective of his work, followed by an open conversation with the audience traversing the complicated borders in which his work resides.
Topics: Gender, Borders, frontiers, gentrification, art, politics, spanglish, Mission District, San...
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Apr 16, 2014
04/14
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Adriana Camarena
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Benito Santiago is a disabled elder, musician, and public school teacher currently being Ellis Act evicted from his lifelong San Francisco home on Duboce Street. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen City storytellers who shared their eviction horror stories that evening around the fire. Related event...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Benito Santiago, CalHumanities,...
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Apr 20, 2014
04/14
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Adriana Camarena
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Michael "Med-O" Whitson and LisaRuth Elliot were flatmates at 1668 Page St. in the Haight. After their building was sold and they initially refused to accept a buy-out settlement, the new owners hired the leading landlord law firm of Fried & Williams to pursue an Ellis Act Eviction in 2013. LisaRuth lived on Page Street for 3 and 1/2 years. LisaRuth is a community historian, artist, bread baker, urban farmer, writer, editor, everyday bicyclist, activist, and San Francisco resident...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, LisaRuth Elliott, CalHumanities,...
In Adriana Camarena's new work the most precarious residents of the Mission are the central storytellers. Theirs are historic tales of Californian daily life: Indigenous migrants on their day off from construction or cooking on the line, watch movies inside their shared group apartments. Parents, raising children in the Mission, fend off poverty by working hard, with the result that their dutifulness sometimes translates into absence for their kids. Lost in plain sight, young kids in gangs...
Topics: Mission District, gentrification, displacement, Homies, Migrants, immigration, mothers, sorrows,...
Excerpted from "Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78", Jesse Drew describes the blue-collar industrial life in the Norheast Mission District, when beer was brewed, bread baked, and trains rolled through in the dark of night.
Topics: labor, work, factories, blue-collar, beer, bread, Twinkies, mayonnaise, trains, Mission District,...
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Apr 20, 2014
04/14
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Adriana Camarena
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Lauren Montana Swiger is an activist, musician, and community member who was evicted from the Mission, along with her teenage daughter. It was an Owner-Move-In eviction, one of three kinds of no-fault evictions displacing San Franciscan families and communities. Montana and her daughter were forced to relocate to Berkeley. It’s pretty there, but they mourn the loss of daily living in a community that they toiled to create with other parents and kids to challenge the stereotypes of oppression...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Lauren Swiger, CalHumanities,...
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Apr 8, 2011
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Shaping San Francisco
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Oscar Grande is an organizer with PODER in San Francisco's Mission District, an organization dedicated to environmental and social justice.
Topics: Environmental justice, ecology, urban agriculture, economic growth, transportation, urban gardens,...
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Sam, The Shaolin B-Boy
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These are some sounds from San Francisco's Bike Polo. Remember to wear a helmet!
Topics: bike polo, urban games, San Francisco, polo, bikes, bike, Mission District, Bay Area, fun, games
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Adriana Camarena
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Steven has lived in San Francisco for 30 years. He was evicted from his apartment at 940 Capp Street after 26 years of living there by the resident owners of the house via family members move-in. He feels this move-in eviction was retaliation for, among other justifiable actions, his declining to sign a new and illegal rental agreement that would have doubled his rent. Karen Uchiyama, Esq. was their counsel.
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Steven Black, CalHumanities,...
Sirron Norris has been splashing his satirical cartoon characters around the Mission and San Francisco for years. From biting social commentary to whimsical commercial art, his work spans a range that challenges the boundaries of art and politics.
Topics: cartoons, art, commercial art, Art and Politics, murals, Mission District, tagging, graffiti, day...
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Adriana Camarena
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Zeph works as a cultural activist at the intersections of art, social justice, and the transgressive body. Since 2011, Zeph has helped move 35 friends due to eviction and has focused on creative direct action responding to the economic crisis and displacement. Zeph was evicted in 2012 along with 16 artists from the Million Fishes Collective, which used to stand at Bryant and 23rd. The spiritless office space that now inhabits the former collective space sits directly across from the infamous...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Zeph Fishlyn, CalHumanities,...
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Apr 18, 2014
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Adriana Camarena
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Polo Gonzalez is a Mission District local. He has been involved in community services since his youth, including graffiti abatement programs, volunteering at event security for Carnival, and most recently, collaborating with the DJ Project at Horizons Unlimited, which teaches youth creative and business management skills. Today, he is a manager at a Philz Coffeehouse, where he politely admonishes clients who call The Mission, “The Mish” , to please call it by its proper name. His family was...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Polo Gonzalez, CalHumanities,...
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Sep 2, 2014
09/14
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Judy Drummond
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Photographer/poet Stan Heller reading from his photographic essay about families being evicted from their long-term homes in San Francisco's Mission District.
Topics: Judy Drummond, Stan Heller, Connecting the Dots, KPOO, evictions San Francisco, evictions Mission...
A Shaping San Francisco Talk held at CounterPULSE in San Francisco on Wed., January 20, 7:30pm, Free Patricia Rodriguez, Mujeres Muralistas and former Mission Cultural Center curator. Rodriguez has been involved in San Franciscoâs public art movement as an original member of Mujeres Muralistas and as an anchor from her home on Balmy Alley during the 1970s and 1980s to that remarkable flowering of public art, of which she was a major participant. Sheâs a window into the Chicano art and...
Topics: Murals, public art, chicana, feminism, Mission District, Art Institute, teaching, La Raza, Balmy...
Topics: San Francisco, Mission District, OWS, Occupy San Francisco, demonstrations, protests, 99%
Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sf2006/6443288257/
Mary Jean Robertson ("Voice of the Native Nations" KPOO-FM radio, 34d, 4th and 5th Wednesdays from 6-8 pm) and Tony Gonzalez (AIM-West, International Indian Treaty Council) speak about the importance of the Alcatraz occupation in 1969-70, and the many initiatives galvanized by the audacity of that event. The first part of the audio is the soundtrack from a movie "Alcatraz Is Not an Island" by Jim Fortier.
Topics: Alcatraz, 1969, 1970, Native Americans, Indians, Indigenous, AIM, American Indian Movement,...
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Adriana Camarena
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Michael "Med-O" Whitson and LisaRuth Elliot were flatmates at 1668 Page St. in the Haight. After their building was sold and they initially refused to accept a buy-out settlement, the new owners hired the leading landlord law firm of Fried & Williams to pursue an Ellis Act Eviction in 2013. Michael has lived 32 years in the Bay Area and 30 of those years in his apartment on Page St. He is a community builder, musician, poet, writer, and activist, which is why he moved to San...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Michael "Med-o"...
Bending Over Backwards Audio Tour Stop 4: Komotion International, an underground music and performance space at 2779 16th Street, c. 1986-97.
Topics: punk, performance, Mission District, San Francisco, 1980s, 1990s, Robin Ballinger, Sasha Lilly
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Apr 11, 2014
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walt cortez
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The Mission Show! We bring the heat!...Hope you don’t get Bat Wings!! KAVU-TV Newscenter25 weekend newscaster Janelle Bludau becomes our 12 th man as she calls to talk how she broke the Texas Chupacabra story, follow-up, and what College Station is like, go Aggies! We recap the best moments of Year 1 and release the WalterandFonz Show Mission Statement, written on paper not tablets… well I guess it’s subject to change. Ready to go, Year 2, herrrr we goooo!!!
Topic: walterandfonz los angeles comedy podcast janelle bludau victoria texas KAVU chupacabra mission...
Friends and neighbors from the Mission District, including Mission Archives and Conscious Youth Media Crew folks, came together at CounterPULSE as part of the Shaping San Francisco Talks series on April 11, 2007, to screen raw footage of low-riders on Mission and other lost footage of the 1970s and 1980s. Ray Balbaran, Vero Majana, Roberto Hernandez, and dozens of others... Back in the late 1970s and early â80s Mission St. was home to a wild scene of lowriders every weekend. Bouncing,...
Topics: Mission District, Latino, Low riders, La Raza, The Lot, El Tecolote, Mission Archives, Conscious...
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Adriana Camarena
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Patricia Kerman, now a disabled senior citizen, has lived in her current flat for the past 27 years and Tom Rapp has lived there as her roommate for the last 15 of them. They are being Ellis Acted from their home by their landlord Kaushik Dattani. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen City storytellers...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Tom Rapp, Patricia Kerman,...
Today Mission Bay is the moniker for a new UCSF biomedical campus. Some urban explorers know there is a Mission Creek with a houseboat community, too. In conjunction with the 2nd edition of the book Vanished Waters, weâll take a visual cruise through the industrial and watery past of this former tidal bay, fed by the fresh waters of several local creeks and streams. With Shaping San Francisco's Chris Carlsson and Bob Isaacson and Ginny Stearns from the Mission Creek Conservancy.
Topics: Mission Bay, wetlands, landfill, shoreline, Mission District, South of Market, SOMA, Yelamu,...
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Apr 17, 2014
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Adriana Camarena
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Three residents of the Mission District of San Francisco: Polo Gonzalez, Sarah Brendt, and Rio Yañez share their stories of eviction. They are lifelong San Franciscans, respectively, a cafe manager, a public school teacher, and an artist. In their narratives they also represent their elders: Ana Gutierrez (Polo’s senior mom), Mary Phillips (Sarah’s 98 year old neighbor), and Rene Yañez and Yolanda Lopez (Rio’s parents and legendary Mission artists). All of them are being Ellis Act...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Rio Yanez, Sarah Brendt, Yolanda...
Yolanda Lopez, Judy Drummond and Donna Amador cover the dynamic history of Los Siete de la Raza and Mission District politics of the 1970s. Yolanda dissects the popular iconography of the Virgin of Guadalupe in the context of racially exploitative advertising over the past few decades, to reveal her own creative processes that have produced beautiful "Virgin"-inspired representations of working Chicana women and more.
Topics: Los Siete, Mission District, 1960s, Third World, San Francisco State, Basta Ya!, Centro de Salud,...
Rene Yañez has been at the epicenter of the Mission’s multiple art movements going back to the 1970s. Our Art & Politics series puts him in the spotlight for a retrospective of his life’s work, a free-ranging discussion of the politics that informed his work, and how his work has shaped the neighborhood and the City to which he has contributed so much.
Topics: Day of the Dead, Frieda Kahlo, Galeria de la Raza, Neighborhood Art Centers, La Raza Park, Great...
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The Final Straw
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Do you feel insecure with your living situation? Rents always on the rise while wages stagnate? Getting priced out of your neighborhood? Want some ideas on how you might strike back and who against? This week, Bursts spoke with James Tracy about gentrification and displacement in San Francisco and elsewhere. In his recent book, Dispatches Against Displacement maps some of James' nearly 25 year struggles around housing rights in SF, mostly in The Mission District, as well as larger...
Topics: ashevillefm, kowa-lp, wcrs-lp, kwtf, kxcf, wsfm-lp, sean swain, anarchist, displacement, san...
-ING: Live From The Inter Dada Festival San Francisco, September 8th, 1984 The final public performance of the San Francisco Bay Area Performing Duo called “–ING” showcased Charles Rice Goff III and Steve Schaer opening the second night of a Dada variety show which featured several bizarre acts from all over the world. The “Inter Dada ‘84” festival was a well-coordinated presentation of still art, film, drama, music, and theater, held in San Francisco during September, 1984. Venues...
Topics: Charles Rice Goff III, Steve Schaer, -ING, Dada, Dadaism, San Francisco, Festival, 1984,...
Noe Valley neighborhood newspaper
Topics: Mission District Violence, Voice Vacation, Glen Five and Ten, Noe Valley Special Use District,...
Source: folio
Topics: Mexican American families -- California -- San Francisco -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile...
Papers covering Mission District neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 were North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: Fenicia Jacks, Mission District Summit, University of California San Francisco, Stephen Pantos,...
Source: folio
The first issue of The Potrero View hit the streets August 1, 1970, “published monthly by The Potrero Hill Mob . . . in the hope that Potrero Hill might come together.” The View is San Francisco’s oldest continuously published neighborhood newspaper. Most early issues covered school sports, activities at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, the Recreation Center, and the Potrero Branch Library, as well as local news and city politics.
Topics: Bayview/Hunters Point, Mission District, SOMA, Mondavi Art Center, Lonie Ford, Pier 70, Dogpatch,...
Source: folio
Noe Valley neighborhood newspaper
Topics: Earthquake, Landmarks, Errata, Letters, Earthquake Help, Homeless Residence, Propositions, Toys...
Source: folio
The first issue of The Potrero View hit the streets August 1, 1970, “published monthly by The Potrero Hill Mob . . . in the hope that Potrero Hill might come together.” The View is San Francisco’s oldest continuously published neighborhood newspaper. Most early issues covered school sports, activities at the Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, the Recreation Center, and the Potrero Branch Library, as well as local news and city politics.
Topics: Daniel Webster Elementary School, Starr King Elementary School, Enola Maxwell Middle School, schole...
Source: folio
Papers covering Mission District neighborhood issues from 1986 to 2004 were North Mission News, Mission News, and New Mission News.
Topics: Victor Miller, Jorge Zepeda, Proposition 187, Rose Arrieta, Central American Refugee Center...
Source: folio
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